Hi All,

My requirement is, we need to enable SSO using SAML2.0 technology Currently the SAP portal(7.31) is being authenticated against LDAP after being successfully authenticated the cookie value is decrypted and able to communicate with JAVA applications which are running on Websphere portal(vers 8.5) and we have .NET applications running on windows 2008 server

Pls suggest the possible solution ?

Thanks,

Mano

Hi All,

I am using SAP EHP1 for NW 7.3 SP1. I need to update to SP11.

So I have taken the list of components from "sysinfo/componentsinfo" and downloaded all the components from SMP ..

But SUM is not accepting the .SCA except the "SAPUI5.SCA" and "ODATA.SCA". When I see the log. It displays as attached.

Can any one tell me what will be the issue. I also imported the certificate as guided.

Please let me know what will be the issue?

Regards

R.Prakash

SAP Portfolio Overview

Key Areas of SAP

In order to support customers in the ever-changing business world, SAP is expanding its solution portfolio with innovations to provide instant value to customers’ IT needs. While expanding the solution portfolio, SAP maintains consistency of the data, processes, and applications in the portfolio.

SAP focuses on the following key areas:

• Scaling the core businesses of customers (on premise)
• Innovating through extensions (on demand)
• Extending the reach of customers (on device)

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SAP: On Premise, On Demand, and On Device

SAP: On Premise

SAP solutions scale the core businesses of customers and deliver instant value to them. To make these solutions easy to use, SAP ensures that they are preintegrated and implemented in a nondisruptive way. SAP solutions are developed using software principles such as decoupling, layering, abstraction, and design.

SAP: On Demand

SAP provides rapid innovations that deliver extended, on-demand functionality for a specific line of business.

SAP: On Device

SAP also aims to extend the reach of customers in the following ways:

• By enabling end users to use SAP data and processes from various devices everywhere by using SAP applications for mobile business
• By providing end users with information from both inside and outside the enterprise so that they can make decisions based on a broad array of data according to their use cases
• By helping end users cooperate and optimize performance across a dynamic business network of people
• By enabling partners, customers, and end users to extend the functionality of SAP to build user experiences

Orchestration

SAP will continue to invest in life cycle management, master data management, and process orchestration. To ensure that all the solutions and software components fit together perfectly in the customer landscape, an orchestration layer that works across all applications is required.

Products for Companies of All Sizes

SAP offers a vast range of scalable products that can be adjusted to any size and adapted to the continuously changing processes of companies of any size.

The following SAP solutions are available to small and midsize business customers, as shown in the figure:

• SAP Business One
• SAP Business ByDesign
• SAP Business All-in-One

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SAP Business One

SAP Business One has the following features:

1. SAP Business One provides simple navigation and expansion options, innovative Drag&Relate functions and integration with Microsoft Word and Excel.
2. SAP Business One enables you to uniformly manage important business areas, such as sales distribution and finance, with a single integrated application. The SAP Business One application provides an up-to-date overview of the important data of a given company. This data helps companies better meet customer requirements, which is an important prerequisite for profitable growth.
4. SAP Business One can be hosted locally within a company or by a partner and can be implemented within two months.
5. SAP Business One is the ideal solution for small companies with around 100 employees who are looking for an affordable system to ensure the successful and profitable operation of their core processes (such as finance, sales, customer service, and operations). SAP Business One is sold exclusively through a global partner network of certified and experienced partners. These partners offer 24-hour support, which covers the enhancements from independent software providers. SAP Business One is currently being used by more than 34,000 customers as of 2012 in over 40 countries.

SAP Business ByDesign

SAP Business ByDesign is a solution for small (around 100 employees) and midsize (100 to 500 employees) companies that want to use an on-demand solution to improve their core processes and lower the entry and operating costs. The solution is aimed at midmarket companies that are not using integrated business software.

SAP Business ByDesign has the following features:

• It combines the advantages of an integrated, end-to-end application with the benefits of an on-demand solution. Having a low risk potential and low operating costs, SAP Business ByDesign provides integrated service and support, adaptability, and user-friendly features. The solution also guarantees transparency and adheres to legal requirements.
• It is the most complete, fully integrated, on-demand solution to help midsize companies manage their finances, human resources, projects, production, and supplier and customer relationship management. It also supports the regional and local legal requirements of companies. The design of SAP Business ByDesign  addresses country-specific compliance (statutory) issues.

SAP Business ByDesign was not developed merely for standard business applications or customer relationship management. Instead, the application was developed with user interfaces that can be customized by user role to support all business processes within a company. The application offers end-to-end processes for the work center of the future.

SAP Business All-in-One

SAP Business All-in-One is powered by SAP NetWeaver and includes the SAP ERP application, the SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) application, and applications from the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio. SAP All-in-One is the brand name for vertical solutions (solutions that are industry-specific or country-specific) that are based on the SAP NetWeaver technology and developed with SAP partners.

SAP Business All-in-One has the following features:

• It allows businesses to leverage the best practices of industry leaders at an affordable fixed price. And, it is all on a platform that businesses will not outgrow.
• It can be used as local software or hosted by a partner of a company.
• It is based on various SAP products with a focus on SAP ERP, SAP CRM, and the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio.
• It provides a portfolio of industry-specific functions, based on SAP Best Practices.
• It can be planned easily.

More than 13,000 small and midsize customers in more than 50 countries run SAP Business All-in-One. More than 1,000 SAP partners around the world deliver local implementation and customization support for SAP Business All-in-One, giving you access to expert assistance everywhere. Preconfigured business scenarios and implementation accelerators can be put into operation in this application – within 8 to 16 weeks.

The following table shows a comparison of the SAP solutions for small and midsize companies:

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Overview of SAP Business Suite

The SAP software portfolio is constantly extended, optimized, and tailored to the needs of the market. SAP has developed many industry-specific applications over the years and added more products for small-to-midsize companies to the software portfolio. SAP enables integration between various applications (modules) from different vendors and across company boundaries.​

SAP Business Suite applications are an extended family of business applications that enable companies to manage their entire value chains. These applications provide users with consistent results throughout the network of a company and the flexibility needed to address dynamic market situations. The applications also support cross-company processes. 

SAP Business Suite provides the following evolved features:

• A complete spectrum of business solutions
• A technological infrastructure that combines openness and flexibility with maturity and stability
• Interfaces for integrating non-SAP products
• Components that can be adapted to meet multiple business requirements
• Numerous industry-specific functions

SAP Business Suite plays a central role in businesses. Many companies are already profiting from the comprehensive and flexible business applications in SAP Business Suite because of their highly evolved functions. These functions include complete integration, industry-typical functions, unlimited scalability, and smooth collaboration over the Internet.

Architecture of SAP Business Suite

Refer to the figure for the components in the architecture of SAP Business Suite.

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As shown in the figure, the core applications of SAP Business Suite are SAP ERP, SAP CRM, SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM), SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM), and SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM). These applications support all the essential business processes of a company.

SAP CRM enables multichannel customer interactions, including mobile smart phones, the Internet, and social media. It also offers a dedicated communications infrastructure that helps to connect all users anytime, anywhere.

SAP ERP

The SAP ERP application is a market-leading application for optimizing business and IT by reducing IT complexity, increasing adaptability, and delivering more IT value at a lower cost than the traditional ERP solutions. It supports mission-critical, end-to-end business processes for finance, human capital management, asset management, sales, procurement, and other essential corporate functions.

SAP ERP also supports industry-specific processes by providing industry-specific business functions that can be activated selectively by using the switch framework. This framework keeps the application core stable and helps to ensure maximum performance.

SAP Customer Relationship Management

The SAP CRM application provides a comprehensive platform for marketing, sales, and service professionals to obtain complete customer intelligence that they can leverage to manage customers and customer-related processes effectively.

SAP Product Lifecycle Management

The SAP PLM application helps companies manage, track, and control all product-related information over the complete product and asset lifecycle and throughout the extended supply chain.

SAP Supplier Relationship Management

The SAP SRM application provides a procurement platform that helps organizations in all industries improve their centralized sourcing and contract management and enables them to interact with suppliers through multiple channels.

SAP Supply Chain Management

SAP SCM transforms traditional supply chains from linear, sequential processes into open, configurable, and responsive supply networks. In such networks, customer-centric, demand-driven companies can sense and respond more intelligently and quickly to dynamics of supply and demand across a globally distributed environment.

Industry Applications

SAP addresses the requirements of specific business processes for many industries by complementing the basic business processes that are common to all large enterprises.

Support for these industry-specific processes is delivered as part of SAP ERP or as a separate industry application, such as the SAP Dealer Business Management application, which integrates with the other applications of SAP Business Suite.

The architecture and business functionality of the industry applications result from SAP's in-depth knowledge and understanding of the industry-specific business requirements and business processes. SAP industry portfolios are continuously enhanced by adding new applications that address the highly specialized business needs of customers in target markets.

The following table lists some of the industry applications that SAP offers:

Supplementary Applications and Enhancement Packages

Supplementary applications drive specialized business processes common to a large number of industries, such as manufacturing applications, SAP solutions for auto-ID and item serialization, and applications for mobile business.

The SAP NetWeaver technology platform provides a reliable, secure, and scalable foundation to run business applications like SAP Business Suite and SAP BusinessObjects applications.

SAP NetWeaver ensures that large enterprises can perform mission-critical business processes. SAP also has a proven method for continually delivering updates to SAP Business Suite and SAP NetWeaver without disrupting a company’s operations. SAP provides enhancement packages with collections of new or improved business functions that companies can deploy in a modular fashion and on their own schedule.

SAP NetWeaver

As the technical foundation for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), SAP NetWeaver delivers a comprehensive set of middleware functions in a modular software environment with the aim of reducing IT complexity and increasing business flexibility across heterogeneous IT landscapes. SAP NetWeaver provides IT organizations with the lowest cost of operation and best business availability for SAP applications across heterogeneous IT landscapes through unified lifecycle management, identity management, secure communications, and end-to-end monitoring.

Enhancement Packages

Enhancement packages enable companies to take advantage of ongoing innovations while keeping their core software stable. The packages were introduced with the SAP ERP 6.0 application. Several enhancement packages have been released since 2006. All core applications of SAP Business Suite are now enabled for continuous innovation through enhancement packages.

In the future, SAP will continue to deliver enhancement packages for the core applications, which will minimize the need for potentially disruptive upgrade projects in companies.

SAP Applications and Components

SAP Business Suite provides numerous applications to address business challenges. However, the submodules of many applications have similar or identical requirements for business functions.

Different applications, therefore, contain similar software components in parts. A component is the smallest, separately producible, deliverable, installable, and maintainable software unit. Examples of components are SAP ERP Central Component (ECC), SAP SCM, and SAP NetWeaver Portal.

Refer to the figure for an overview of SAP applications and components.

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List the key capabilities of SAP NetWeaver

SAP NetWeaver Technology Map – Capability View

SAP NetWeaver provides the following benefits:

• As the technical foundation for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), SAP NetWeaver delivers a comprehensive set of middleware functions in a modular software environment. These functions help reduce IT complexity and increase business flexibility across heterogeneous IT landscapes.
• SAP NetWeaver provides IT organizations with the lowest cost of operation and best business availability for SAP applications across heterogeneous IT landscapes. Low-cost operations and business availability are made possible through unified lifecycle management, identity management, secure communications, and end-to-end monitoring in SAP NetWeaver.
• SAP NetWeaver provides the flexibility to integrate and extend the business processes that run across SAP, SAP-certified partners, and custom-built applications. This flexibility comes from the prebuilt integration content and enterprise services and the model-driven tools that support rapid deployment in SAP NetWeaver.
• SAP NetWeaver supports business process management, which helps monitor the efficiency, integrity, and security of mission-critical business processes. Business users can also use SAP NetWeaver to define business rules to ensure consistency across a business network.
• SAP NetWeaver integrates and connects people, information, and business processes across technologies and companies. It enables companies to adjust to changes quickly. SAP NetWeaver ensures that a company’s crucial business processes are reliable, safe, and scalable. In addition, SAP NetWeaver enables companies to maximize the benefits from their current software and systems.
• SAP NetWeaver consolidates nonuniform technologies and provides predefined business content, which reduces the manual effort involved in maintaining this content. SAP NetWeaver is based on a technology that uses industry standards and can be enhanced using popular development tools.

Capability-Based Technology Map of SAP NetWeaver

The technology map of SAP NetWeaver has a simplified structure, as shown in the figure. The structure makes it easy to reference SAP NetWeaver capabilities by using application scenarios while supporting a more intuitive drilldown procedure for the components of SAP NetWeaver.

The technology map is not linked to a specific SAP NetWeaver product or release but contains all the capabilities provided by the SAP NetWeaver platform. SAP NetWeaver has various capabilities, such as user productivity, business intelligence (BI), and business process composition, as shown in the figure.

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SAP NetWeaver Capabilities - User Productivity, BI, Business Process Composition, and EIM

SAP NetWeaver can provide personalized access to mission-critical applications and data by using portals, desktop clients, and mobile interfaces. The flexible UI technology of SAP NetWeaver enables IT organizations and partners to build their own state-of-the-art applications.

By managing information assets effectively, organizations can minimize data integration efforts, streamline end-to-end business process execution, and gain well-founded business insight.

User Productivity

SAP NetWeaver can help users and groups improve their productivity by providing enhanced collaboration, optimized knowledge management, and intuitive search in business objects and unstructured content.

Business Intelligence

The BI solutions provide access to information to all users, from the high-end analyst to the casual business user.These solutions require minimal dependence on IT resources and developers and enable users to access, format, analyze, navigate, and share information across an organization.

Business Process Composition

Customers who use SAP NetWeaver can focus on the model-driven development of composite applications instead of the traditional code-based approach to developing these applications.

Enterprise Information Management

Enterprise information management (EIM) is the business activity of creating, cleansing, integrating, managing, governing, and archiving the structured and unstructured data used by an organization.

The EIM activities are supported by the SAP product families: 

• Enterprise data warehouse (EDW) management
• Master data management
• Data integration and data quality management
• Metadata management
• Information lifecycle management
• Enterprise content management

SAP NetWeaver Capabilities – SOA Middleware, Custom Development, Security and Identity Management, and Application Lifecycle Management

SAP NetWeaver enables IT organizations to use standards-based web services for forming new, innovative business solutions that meet changing business needs. In particular, SAP NetWeaver provides SOA middleware that facilitates communication between disparate applications. From a technical view, SOA middleware consists of an enterprise services repository and registry, an Enterprise Services Bus, and SOA management tools.

Using SAP NetWeaver, IT professionals can extend or enhance existing applications. Organizations face a difficult challenge in the security-conscious world today. They have to support transparent enterprise boundaries, location-independent users, and the growing demands for regulatory compliance.

Instead of just focusing on individual phases, SAP provides a holistic approach. Results of a specific phase can be leveraged by other phases due to the integration provided by SAP Solution Manager. This type of integration helps implement and operate IT solutions more quickly and at lower costs.

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Middleware

With SOA middleware, IT professionals can rely on an open and standards-based platform to accelerate business integration.

Custom Development

The professionals can create custom applications using ABAP or Java programming languages.

Security and Identity Management​

With SAP NetWeaver, IT organizations can introduce safeguards that protect their business, while helping users and allowing business processes to proceed unhindered by security operations.

Application Lifecycle Management​

Application lifecycle management provides processes, tools, services, and an organizational model to manage SAP and non-SAP solutions throughout the complete application life cycle.

SAP NetWeaver Application Server

Together with a database, SAP NetWeaver AS is the application platform of SAP NetWeaver. Many SAP systems (including SAP ERP Central Component, SAP NetWeaver Portal, SAP CRM, and SAP SRM) are based on SAP NetWeaver AS and use it as a runtime environment.

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Properties of SAP NetWeaver Application Server

SAP NetWeaver AS is the result of the logical development of the technology of the SAP Application Server (previously known as SAP Basis), where special attention is paid to web-based applications.

The applications delivered by SAP do not always require both the ABAP and Java runtime environments. There are different installation options for SAP NetWeaver AS.

SAP NetWeaver AS offers the following features:

• A reliable and extensively tested runtime environment, which has been developed over a period of 10 years
• A framework for executing complex business processes that meet high security standards
• A reliable and user-friendly development environment
• Support for open standards, such as HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, WebDAV, SOAP, SSL, SSO, X.509, Unicode, HTML, XML and WML, WS Policy, SOAP, WS Trust, Java SE, JSR, WSRP, and SAML
• High scalability
• Support for different operating system and database platforms

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Installation Options for SAP NetWeaver Application Server

The following installation options are available for SAP NetWeaver AS:

• SAP NetWeaver AS ABAPComplete infrastructure in which ABAP-based applications can be developed and used.
• SAP NetWeaver AS JavaComplete infrastructure in which Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE)-compliant applications can be developed and used.
• SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP + Java (dual stack)Complete infrastructure in which ABAP-based and J2EE-based applications can be developed and used.

SAP NetWeaver – Use Cases and Capabilities

The following table provides the main use cases for SAP NetWeaver 7.3x and the capabilities of the application that map to the use cases:

The use cases illustrate how you can use your SAP NetWeaver implementation.

SAP NetWeaver Functionality

SAP NetWeaver provides the following functionality, as shown in the figure:

• Composition environment
• Process integration
• Application lifecycle management
• Security and identity management
• Application platform
• ABAP Server
• Java Server

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Hello there,

I've setup a SAP WebDispatcher in DMZ for multiple SAP Backend Systems. It is working fine for my SAP Backend and SAP Frontend System but while doing the same for HANA XS Engine, it is giving an error while doing the configuration check (-checkconfig)........ "ERROR: no message server
configured"

wdisp/system_0 = SID=HDX, XSSRV=http://host1:8000;http://host2:8000,

Per SAP Note 908097; i've done the changes but it is still same.

Any idea on how to get rid of this issue in Webdispatcher? All are latest level but no Luck.

Any help is very much appreciated.

Thanking you,

~ Mahendra

Hi All,

I have found may red threads/Long running Threads for one of our java application server. I have taken thread dump for analysis.

Can anyone help me on below

How to do analysis using Thread dump viewer tool?

What is that we need to maily check from those downloaded Thread dumps?

Regards,

Arun

Hi,

System details are:

SAP NetWeaver 7.31 (NetWeaver Portal)

Database: Oralce 11.2.3

O/S Solaris 5.10

We have upgraded our portal system from NetWeaver 7.0 to version 7.31. At the time of upgrade, during confirguration phase, SUM had prompted for Secure Store Key Phrase. We had left the entry blank, as SUM will set the default secure store key phrase.

Now I need to take an export of this system (System Copy). As a pre-requisite to export/import, I need the key phrase. I have tried checkKeyPhrase.sh tool, as suggested in System Copy Guide for Using Software Provisioning Manager 1.0, but no luck. Since we are unware of the key phrase, I have tried to reset the key phrase using configtool. But I am getting error 'ERROR: An error has occurred during key migration. INFO: Secure store recovered to the initial key phrase'. Screen attached.

I have checked the SAP Note: 1683616 - AS Java doesn't start after changing the Key phrase in the configtool and also the help document link: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/cd/14c93ec2f7df6ae10000000a114084/content.htm, but still fail to overcome the error.

I have gone through some links on SCN but couldn't find any releavant solution. Please suggest.

Thanks,

Abdul.

Hi Experts,

Hope someone can help me with this. I am trying to install NW731 on a windows 2008 server which already has ECC6 installed on it. The ECC 6 existing install is a network domain install and the new install of NW731 is a local domain install.

At the time of installation the installation stops at the Create ICM userstore phase with this error:

An error occurred while processing option SAP Enhancement Package 1 for SAP NetWeaver 7.3 > Oracle > SAP Systems > Application Server ABAP > Standard System > Standard System( Last error reported by the step: Process call 'F:\usr\sap\MBW\SYS\exe\uc\NTAMD64\saplikey pf=\\srvdc1127\sapmnt\MBW\SYS\profile\MBW_DVEBMGS01_srvdc1127 -install_first_temp K0327848492 XXXXXX' exits with error code 2. For details see log file(s) saplikey.log, dev_slic.).

This is what it shows when I look at the dev_likey:

Connecting as SAPSR3/<pwd>@MBW on connection 0 (nls 0) ... (dbsl 720 081211, UNICODE[2])

Attaching to database server MBW (con=0, svchp=0AA7E3F8, srvhp=0AA82CC0)

Sat Mar 29 20:19:06 2014

Starting user session: OCISessionBegin(con=0, usr='SAPSR3', svc=0AA7E3F8, srv=0AA82CC0, usr=0AA919B0)

Sat Mar 29 20:20:07 2014

   OCISessionBegin(OCI_DEFAULT) failed with SQL error 3113:

   ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel                                                                          

Server handle (con=0,svchp=0AA7E3F8,srvhp=0AA82CC0) detached

*** ERROR => CONNECT failed with sql error '3113'

[dbsloci.c    14533]

***LOG BY2=> sql error 3113   performing CON [dblink       540]

***LOG BY0=> ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel [dblink       540]

*** ERROR => saplikey: failed to connect to the database. [saplikey_w.c 762]

I have run the below command to make sure the password is correct and have also used the SAPSR3 user to query a table which was successful.

brconnect -u system/<password> -f chpass -o SAPSR3 -p <password>

After running the above command I am able to log in and connect to Oracle DB using the above command and query tables.

I have also tried to start SAP through sapmmc and looking at the logs I see this:

C  Starting user session: OCISessionBegin(con=0, usr='SAPSR3', svc=1515F818, srv=15160100, usr=1516F390)

C 

C Sat Mar 29 21:03:25 2014

C     OCISessionBegin(OCI_DEFAULT) failed with SQL error 1017:

C     ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied                                                                       

C  *** ERROR => CONNECT failed with sql error '1017'

[dbsloci.c    14533]

Would be grateful if someone can help me overcome this issue.

Also, is there anyway to see what password is being used by SAP to perform the setup using the user SAPSR3? This to me is the most likely cause of the issue.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Manish

hi gurus,

i'm having a problem in a system copy from windows oracle 10g to linux oracle 11. the problem is that all packages fails and a error message raises in sapinst tool.

please help.

regards

Hi Experts,

I am trying to connect SAP to Non SAP system through RFC connection,

So, I have register the RFC program for JCO, T type connection with Program ID - JCOSERVER01, unable to test the connection getting the below error.

From SM69, we are getting the External program terminated with exit code 1 (Attached) :

Please help me out to resolve the issue.

Thanks in advance,

Bhaskar N

Dear experts,

I have a doubt/question regarding the upgrade strategies of NetWeaver 7.0.

There is now EHP3 for NetWeaver 7.0, which says SAP Application Server

ABAP 7.31. There is also NetWeaver 7.31. The Basis version is the same,

but when checking the ST06 transaction, in EHP3 it looks the old way (like

in 7.0) and in NW 7.31 it has the new design.

Both SAP_BASIS components have the same level, though the transactions

look different.

Also In MOPZ I see options for upgrade to 7.31 and for EHP 3. Which one

should be preferred ? EHP or upgrade and why are there differences ??

Thank you!!

Hi

Installing IDES ERP (windows 2012 R2 - SQL Server 2012) fail in fase Import ABAP. Import_log shows a lot of these:

java version "1.6.0_45"

Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 6.1.051)

SAP Java Server VM (build 6.1.051 23.5-b05, May 30 2013 00:49:05 - 61_REL - optU - windows amd64 - 6 - bas2:197575 (mixed mode))

Import Monitor jobs: running 1, waiting 104, completed 38, failed 0, total 143.

Import Monitor jobs: running 2, waiting 103, completed 38, failed 0, total 143.

Import Monitor jobs: running 3, waiting 102, completed 38, failed 0, total 143.

Loading of 'D010TAB' import package: ERROR

Loading of 'D021T' import package: ERROR

Import Monitor jobs: running 1, waiting 102, completed 38, failed 2, total 143.

Import Monitor jobs: running 2, waiting 102, completed 38, failed 1, total 143.

Loading of 'DD03L' import package: ERROR

Import Monitor jobs: running 0, waiting 102, completed 38, failed 3, total 143.

Import Monitor jobs: running 1, waiting 101, completed 38, failed 3, total 143.

Import Monitor jobs: running 2, waiting 100, completed 38, failed 3, total 143.

Import Monitor jobs: running 3, waiting 99, completed 38, failed 3, total 143.

Loading of 'REPOTEXT' import package: ERROR

Loading of 'DOKCLU' import package: ERROR

Import Monitor jobs: running 2, waiting 99, completed 38, failed 4, total 143.

Import Monitor jobs: running 1, waiting 99, completed 38, failed 5, total 143.

Loading of 'REPOSRC' import package: ERROR

Import Monitor jobs: running 0, waiting 99, completed 38, failed 6, total 143.

Import Monitor jobs: running 1, waiting 98, completed 38, failed 6, total 143.

Import Monitor jobs: running 2, waiting 97, completed 38, failed 6, total 143.

Import Monitor jobs: running 3, waiting 96, completed 38, failed 6, total 143.

Loading of 'SAP0000' import package: ERROR

When digging into logfiles i found this:

Compiled Aug 16 2011 02:26:46

patchinfo (patches.h): (0.098) DB6: correction for R3load PL 91 on HP-UX and SOLARIS (note 1609719)

process id 2020

C:\usr\sap\VM5\SYS\exe\uc\NTAMD64\R3load.exe -i D010TAB.cmd -dbcodepage 4103 -l D010TAB.log -loadprocedure fast

(DB) INFO: connected to DB

(SQL) INFO: Searching for SQL file SQLFiles.LST

(SQL) INFO: SQLFiles.LST not found

(SQL) INFO: Searching for SQL file C:\sap.install\export\51044815_1\DATA_UNITS\EXPORT_1\DB/SQLFiles.LST

(SQL) INFO: C:\sap.install\export\51044815_1\DATA_UNITS\EXPORT_1\DB/SQLFiles.LST not found

(SQL) INFO: Searching for SQL file SSEXC.SQL

(SQL) INFO: SSEXC.SQL not found

(SQL) INFO: Searching for SQL file C:\sap.install\export\51044815_1\DATA_UNITS\EXPORT_1\DB/MSS/SSEXC.SQL

(SQL) INFO: found C:\sap.install\export\51044815_1\DATA_UNITS\EXPORT_1\DB/MSS/SSEXC.SQL

(SQL) INFO: Trying to open C:\sap.install\export\51044815_1\DATA_UNITS\EXPORT_1\DB/MSS/SSEXC.SQL

(SQL) INFO: C:\sap.install\export\51044815_1\DATA_UNITS\EXPORT_1\DB/MSS/SSEXC.SQL opened

(DB) ERROR: DDL statement failed

(               INSERT INTO @XSQL VALUES                 (' sap_atomic_defaultbind ' ',                      'D010TAB', 'MASTER' ')   )

DbSlExecute: rc = 103

  (SQL error 2812)

  error message returned by DbSl:

[Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 11.0][SQL Server]Could not find stored procedure 'sap_atomic_defaultbind'.

(DB) INFO: D010TAB~0 created

Seems that something is wrong in the SQL server?? Any ideas?

Hi Expert,

I have install SAP Solution Manager 7.0 EHP1 system with system copy method.

My ABAP instance is up and running but JAVA down.

Log as below, I have also refer the SAP Note 943602, but not help me to resolve the problem.

Error occurred during initialization of VM

Incompatible initial and maximum heap sizes specified

JLaunchIAbortJava: abort hook is called

ERROR => The Java VM aborted unexpectedly.

Please see SAP Note 943602 , section 'Java VM crashes'

for additional information and trouble shooting.

JLaunchCloseProgram: good bye (exitcode = -2)

Rgds,

Ashok

Dear Experts,

We have faced this issue twice in same instance (02) in last 2 months. The instance 02 gateway becomes unreachable and impacts performance system-wide. To quickly fix the issue, we need to restart this instance. Following are the system details and log info:

OS: AIX 6.1

DB: Oracle 11g

ECC6.0 EHP5

HA configured

SSO configured

CI & DB on one server, 3 apps on different server

Attached are the gateway trace and workprocess trace files. Attaching dev_w30 trace file also because this work process was the one which goes in the hang state first then rest of the work process, look at the time in following screenshot (1426 sec):

Following is a SM21 screenshot:

No short dumps were generated during the issue.

Let me know if further details are required.

Appreciate your time and help in advance!

Thanks,

Hardeep

When deleting large clients, long runtimes are often a problem. Parallelism can help, but the real bottleneck are large tables. So maybe this guide can help. The SQL statements are for Oracle databases with SAPSR3 layout, for other databases or layouts you have to modify them.

Manual deletion of tables

First of all, you need to identify large, client specific tables. E. g. in IS-U systems candidates are DFKKOP or SWWCNTP0. These tables are client specific, so you can easily find out if the table can be truncated without harming the other clients:

SELECT mandt, count( * ) FROM sapsr3.dfkkop GROUP BY mandt;

or

SELECT client, count( * ) FROM sapsr3.swwcntp0 GROUP BY mandt;

As result, you see the number of rows for each client. When only the client you want to delete has rows, you can truncate the tables beforehand. This will significantly speed up the client deletion.

Copy & deletion of "unbalanced" tables

When you identify tables, where only a few rows are contained in the clients which will remain in the system and a huge amount of rows in the client you want to delete, you can first copy all remaining rows in a new table (assuming you want to delete client 100):

CREATE TABLE sapsr3."dfkkop_tmp" TABLESPACE psapsr3 NOLOGGING PARALLEL 8 AS
SELECT /*+ INDEX("dfkkop" "dfkkop~0") */ * FROM sapsr3."dfkkop" WHERE mandt NOT IN ('100'):

After that, you just have to truncate the original table and insert all rows from the temp table:

TRUNCATE TABLE sapsr3."dfkkop";
INSERT INTO sapsr3."dfkkop" SELECT * FROM "dfkkop_tmp";
COMMIT;
ALTER INDEX sapsr3."dfkkop~0" REBUILD ONLINE;

Rebuilding the primary index is a good thing to speed up the client deletion afterwards.

Automation of finding tables / preparing statements

If there are many huge tables and the time windows is very small, you may use a scripting language to prepare the SQL statements. I prefer Perl, as I know this language and as Oracle comes with Perl and the DBI module. Connecting to your database is pretty simple:

use DBI;
my $sid = "<SID>";
my $hostname = "localhost";
my $port = "<listener port>";
my $sappw = "<password>";
my $sapuser = "SAPSR3";
my $connection = DBI->connect("DBI:Oracle:SID=$sid;host=$hostname;port=$port","$sapuser/$sappw") || die "Can't connect to $sid: $!";

You can start the script with $ORACLE_HOME/perl/bin/perl script.pl as oracle owner.

Next step will be to determine all client specific tables - in most cases, the first column is named client, mandt or mandant. Here is a code snippet which will give you number of rows in the remaining clients and overall rows, you just have to adjust to your needs:

my $mandt_exclude = '100';
my $sql_all_tables = "SELECT object_name FROM dba_objects WHERE owner = 'SAPSR3' AND object_type = 'TABLE' ORDER BY object_name ASC";
my $all_cursor = $connection->prepare($sql_all_tables);
$all_cursor->execute();
while (my @table = $all_cursor->fetchrow_array) {
 $sql_first_column = "SELECT table_name, column_name FROM dba_cons_columns WHERE table_name = '$table[0]' AND constraint_name = ( SELECT MIN( constraint_name ) FROM dba_cons_columns WHERE table_name = '$table[0]' )";
 my $first_col_cursor = $connection->prepare($sql_first_column);
 $first_col_cursor->execute();
 while (my @col = $first_col_cursor->fetchrow_array) {  if ($col[1] eq "CLIENT" or $col[1] eq "MANDANT" or $col[1] eq "MANDT") {   $sql_count_all = "SELECT count( * ) FROM \"$table[0]\"";   my $count_all_cursor = $connection->prepare($sql_count_all);   $count_all_cursor->execute();   while (my @exc = $count_all_cursor->fetchrow_array) {<Put your custom logic here>   }   $sql_count_exclude_mandt = "SELECT count( * ) FROM \"$table[0]\" WHERE $col[1] NOT IN ($mandt_exclude)";   my $count_exclude_cursor = $connection->prepare($sql_count_exclude_mandt);   $count_exclude_cursor->execute();   while (my @exc = $count_exclude_cursor->fetchrow_array) {<Put your custom logic here>
}
}
}

You just have to add some output to build the SQL scripts.

Hi SCN Friends,

Version -

SAP_BASIS - 731, 0005

Kernel - 720, Level 300

OS - Linux GNU SLES-11 x86_64 cc4.3.4 use-pr120614

DB - ORACLE

In our Production System, we are observing that Background Jobs are using Extended Memory even when the Non-Dia Heap Quota is not reached.

Am puzzled as SAP says Non-Dia processes use, Roll, Heap and then Extended Memory.

Due to these Jobs occupying Extended Memory our Dialog Users are getting affected.

Please help in understanding why the Background Job is using Extended Memory even when Heap Quota is not reached.

Please let me know if you need any more details...

Considering the Release Strategy of SAP

Availability and Maintenance Strategy of SAP Solutions

The SAP release and maintenance strategy determines the availability of new SAP software releases (including releases or enhancement packages of SAP Business Suite, SAP NetWeaver, and the SAP Business Objects portfolio). The strategy also determines the length and conditions of the maintenance of releases and the dependencies between the releases.

Shipments of SAP releases and the corresponding enhancement packages are introduced into the market in two or three shipment phases, such as beta, restricted, and unrestricted.

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Beta and Restricted Shipment Phases

They are not available for productive use. New software releases are available to only a restricted number of customers. The release to customer date marks the start of the restricted shipment phase.

During this phase, the new software release passes through a standardized process called the ramp-up. Ramp-up is a name given to the process of introducing new products or new releases of SAP software in the market.

Beta Shipment Phase

In some cases, SAP offers a beta shipment before the restricted shipment phase (which is before the release to customer date). Beta shipments are used for testing purposes only.

Restricted Shipment Phase

The SAP software can be used for a productive implementation. During the ramp-up, the software is available to only a limited circle of customers, who applied to SAP to participate.

The ramp-up serves to take customer wishes into consideration before the respective SAP software is made available. Participants in the ramp-up are given direct contact to the SAP development environment and are provided with wide-ranging support in implementing the SAP software.

A ramp-up takes about 6 months.

Unrestricted Shipment Phase

With the successful conclusion of the SAP ramp-up program, the unrestricted shipment phase of an SAP release begins on its default release date. After the default release date, all customers can request the new software without restrictions.

The latest available version of SAP software is called a default release. When SAP customers order software from SAP, they are given the current default release.

SAP Maintenance Strategy

A 5-1-2 maintenance strategy was introduced in 2004 to support aligned maintenance phases between SAP releases. To continue providing a strong, reliable support structure for the leading solutions of the industry, SAP extended its 5-1-2 strategy to 7-2, which is seven years of mainstream maintenance, with an additional option for two years of extended maintenance.

Some applications, such as SAP Business One and composite applications, do not follow the maintenance strategy rules. They have a minimum mainstream maintenance duration of two years and do not offer extended maintenance.

As a part of SAP Enterprise Support, customers receive extended maintenance for selected releases automatically and without an additional fee. Special rules apply to content shipments.

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SAP Business Suite 7 Maintenance Extension

Here you can check the maintenance extension for all applications included in SAP Business Suite

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For more information, see SAP Note 1648480.

Types of Maintenance

A release automatically enters into customer-specific maintenance. There is no need to apply for an additional contract. During this phase, customers receive support services similar to those offered in the mainstream maintenance phase, but with some additional restrictions.

For example, SAP does not deliver new support packages or updates to cover legal changes, and technology updates are limited. Resolution of problems is customer-specific, which means that customers are charged for solutions to problems that are not yet known to SAP.

The following types of maintenance are available from SAP:

• Mainstream maintenanceMainstream maintenance starts from the release to customer date and ends after seven years. This maintenance covers the restricted and unrestricted shipment phases.
• Extended maintenanceCustomers can extend the support period in which corrections or legal changes are taken into account for an increased maintenance fee.The scope of support for the entire extended maintenance period is similar to the scope of support provided during mainstream maintenance. SAP publishes information on the availability and scope of extended maintenance in advance.
• Customer-specific maintenanceYou do not adjust the release to meet external requirements after a certain point in time during the lifecycle of a release. Such requirements include the implementation of legal changes or the support of new technologies. The end of extended maintenance or the end of mainstream maintenance marks the time in question, as long as no extended maintenance is offered. Customer-specific maintenance starts at this time.

Upgrade

To facilitate smooth upgrades, SAP provides a sufficient overlap of two successive releases to make sure that the time in which customers may upgrade from one release to the next release is at least one year. For content releases, the overlap is at least six months.

SAP provides upgrade paths for SAP releases and the corresponding content releases. SAP also provides access to upgrade procedures for the current release. Usually, customers can upgrade directly from one release to another release as long as the releases occur during the mainstream maintenance phase. Depending on the technological constraints, an upgrade to a release that is several releases away from a customer’s current release may have to be performed in more than one step.

History of Selected Software Components

The figure shows the historical development of the following components:

• The basis technology (SAP Basis→ SAP Web AS→ SAP NetWeaver AS)
• The core business functionality (SAP R/3→ SAP R/3 Enterprise→ SAP ERP Central Component)

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Hallo,

I developed a application some months ago and it worked well.

Now we updated the Netweaver to 7.3-SP10 and now its broken.

I use the taglibs

<%@ taglib prefix="f" uri="http://java.sap.com/jsf/core"%>

<%@ taglib prefix="h" uri="http://java.sap.com/jsf/html"%>

I have a some inputs like h:inputTex and h:selectOneMenu and a dataTable like that

And a button like that

<h:commandButton rendered="#{mngBean.listRenderer}" title="#{promts.search}" value="#{promts.search}" action="#{mngBean.search}"/>

After clicking the button I get all the data from my inputs in my managed-bean, but not the inputs that are nested in the table. But the "valueChangeMethod" shows that the bean is getting the data and it seems that it is cleared before I can used it. If  I start debugging the "valueChangeMethod" is executed first, and the Inputs I typed in the fields are in the newValue-Fields. After that its execute the search-Method and there are no data in the list.

Alls this works well with the 7.3-SP4, that was installed before.

Maybe someone has a idea for that?

Hi Colleagues,

I need some help with RFC creation for MS BizTalk. I was trying to use this guide, but it doesn't seem to be complete. When I create an RFC as described if fails connection test:

What should I do in order to create an RFC. I guess it has to be connected to something (some instance) and to be honest I don't understand this part.

Navigating through SAP system

User Interfaces in the SAP Environment

Some SAP applications and components, such as SAP NetWeaver Portal, SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (SAP NetWeaver PI), and SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment (SAP NetWeaver CE), are based on SAP NetWeaver AS Java.

Some applications, such as SAP Business One and the SAP StreamWork application, and solutions like SAP Crystal solutions are not based on SAP NetWeaver Application Server (SAP NetWeaver AS) at all.

Different Access Technologies

The following table lists examples of access technologies:

This list does not cover all SAP products. It does not also cover all possible access technologies. For example, a system using SAP ERP can be accessed through your browser or SAP GUI for Java. SAP NetWeaver BI is also accessible by SAP GUI for Windows.

The presentation interface, SAP GUI, enables a user to interact with SAP systems based on AS ABAP. SAP GUI uses the functions provided by the relevant presentation environment. The SAP GUI is based on the Windows Style Guide and is available to several platforms. It provides the same functions for each platform. There are various types of SAP GUI, which can all operate in the same way, regardless of the underlying platform.

Variants of SAP GUI

The figure shows the types of SAP GUI and their flow of communication with the ABAP dispatcher or the Internet Communication Manager (ICM).

The official terms of the SAP GUI are SAP GUI for the Windows environment, SAP GUI for the Java environment, and SAP GUI for Java. These terms are available only in English. Colloquially, the terms SAP GUI for Windows, SAP GUI for Java or Java GUI, and Web GUI are used synonymously with the official terms. The colloquial terms are used frequently.

The variants of the SAP GUI are suitable only for working with SAP systems based on AS ABAP. SAP GUI for Java does not offer access to SAP systems based on AS Java. The name SAP GUI for Java refers to its implementation technology. This GUI has been implemented in Java and can be used on front ends that do not run a Windows operating system (for example, front ends that run Mac OS X or Linux).

SAP applications based on AS Java are accessed using a browser.

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​SAP GUI

The data flow between the presentation and application layers does not consist of prepared screens, but rather of logical and compact information about control elements and user input (DIAG protocol). The volume of data transferred for each screen change is a few KB, so you can also easily connect presentation servers over WANs.

SAP GUI for the Java Environment (SAP GUI for Java) is written in Java and is the platform-independent implementation of SAP GUI. Like SAP GUI for the Windows environment, this GUI also uses the DIAG protocol. You can install SAP GUI on either the front end or a terminal server. If you install the SAP GUI on a terminal server, you can access it by using terminal clients.

SAP GUI for HTML requires SAP Internet Transaction Server (ITS) that is part of AS ABAP on the server side, and a Web browser on the client side. SAP ITS provides the services needed for creating responses within the SAP system in HTML format. The responses are transferred to the Web server or Web client outside the SAP system, using the ICM of AS ABAP.

The primary advantage of the SAP GUI for HTML is that it is simple to install on the front end. It requires a browser installation.​

System Logon

1. SAP Logon shows a list of SAP systems. This list is taken from a file on the front end, saplogon.ini, which is centrally preconfigured and provided for end users. Select the system to which you want to log on. During logon, SAP Logon enables logon load distribution by using the resources available to the selected system.
2. When logging on to an SAP system, you are prompted to enter a user name and a password, among other things. If you have implemented a Single Sign-On (SSO) environment, you may not need to enter this information. When you log on, you also select a certain client of the SAP system.
   You can also select a logon language supported by that system. Standard SAP installation includes German and English, but you can installed other languages. The number of installed languages determines the languages that your system supports.
3. On the logon screen, you use the New password pushbutton to change your password. You can change your password once per day, at most.

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The Logon Screen for an SAP System

The user data in SAP systems is called the user master record. An SAP client stores the user master record in the system. This means that you can log on to only those clients where your user (master record) exists. If your user exists only for client 100, you can successfully log on to client 100. If you can log on to more than one client, then you have more than one user master record, which can allow various activities depending on the client where you log on. Your system administrator can add text to your logon screen.

Attempts to log on to an SAP system multiple times are logged for both security and licensing reasons. If the same user logs on more than once, then for each subsequent logon, the system displays a warning message.

This message offers the following options to the user:

• Continue with the current logon and end all other existing logons.
• Continue with the current logon without ending any existing logons (this is recorded in the log. SAP reserves the right to view the log).
• Terminate this logon.

The second option can be deactivated centrally and system-wide.

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To Change the Initial Password

Use the initial password assigned to you when you log on to the system for the first time. During the first logon attempt, the system prompts you to change and save your password. For security reasons, it makes sense to occasionally change your password.

Use the following steps to change your password:

Steps

1. Enter your new password in the New Password and Repeat Password fields. You can move between these fields by using a mouse click or the Tab key. Note that numerous rules regarding the structure of a password can be set up for your system.
2. Choose (Continue) to save your new password.

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To Change the Changed Password Again

User can change their passwords at most once a day on the initial logon screen. In contrast, user administrators with authorization for transaction SU01 can change user passwords as often as they want. Actually, the administrator can only assign new initial passwords. An initial password requires a change during the next logon of the corresponding user.

The following are the steps to change your password again:

1. On the logon screen of the SAP system, enter your data and current password.
2. Choose the New Password pushbutton.
3. Change your password and save your data.

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SAP Easy Access Screen Structure

Once you have logged on successfully, the initial screen of the SAP system (SAP Easy Access screen) appears.

The SAP Easy Access screen is the default initial screen in SAP systems. The left panel of the screen contains a tree hierarchy of the menus available to you in the SAP system.

You can use the right side of the screen to display your company logo. This figure is made available centrally by your system administrator and cannot be customized by individual users.

You can find a detailed description of the steps to configure the figure on the SAP Easy Access screen under Extras→Administration information if you have the correct authorization. Note that the figure is stored in the system and transported to the front end every time a user logs on. Because the transportation takes place in compressed form, the figure must not exceed 20 KB.

You can also prevent the figure from being displayed by either of the following options:

• Choose the setting Low Speed Connection in SAP Logon.
• Choose Extras → Settings on theSAP Easy Access screen.

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Screen Elements in the SAP GUI

A typical screen (with some common elements) appears if you choose the Defaults tab page on System→ User Profile → Own Data. Then, you see the screen shown in the figure with the data for your user.

An SAP user interface can, for example, contain the following simple screen elements:

• Menu bar
• System toolbar
• Command field
• Title bar
• Application toolbar
• Tabs
• Input field checkboxes
• Radio buttons
• Status bar

You can start applications directly by entering their transaction codes in the command field. You can hide and unhide the command field by using the small triangle next to the field. You can find the transaction code for an application in the SAP menu on the SAP Easy Accessscreen, in the status bar, or in the application itself under System → Status.The menu bar is the top line of any dialog in the SAP system. The menus shown here depend on the application being used. The menus may also contain cascading menus.

The pushbuttons in the standard toolbar are shown on every SAP Easy Access screen. If the pushbuttons are not available in an application, they are deactivated. If you place the cursor over a pushbutton for a short time, the system displays a flag with the name or function of the pushbutton. If applicable, the system also displays the corresponding function key setting.

Descriptions of the screen elements are as follows:

• The title bar gives the name of the function that you are currently using.
• The application toolbar shows the pushbuttons available in the application that you are currently using.
• Tabs organize several sub-screens to improve clarity.
• Checkboxes within a field group allow you to select several options at the same time.
• Radio buttons allow you to select only select one option within one field group.
• Input fields and pushbuttons are additional screen elements.
• The status bar displays information about the current system status, such as warnings and errors. You can also change the display variant to show, for example, the transaction code of the current transaction.

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To Log Off the System

The steps to log off the system are as follows:

Steps

1. On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose System→ Log off.
2. The Log Off dialog box appears and tells you that you will lose data that has not been saved when you log off.
3. To log off, choose the Yes pushbutton.

You can also enter /NEND in command field and a log off dialog will appear. In the case you want to log off directly without asking you can enter in command filed /NEX.

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SAP NetWeaver Business Client

SAP NetWeaver Business Client provides a unified look and feel when working on SAP systems based on SAP NetWeaver. For example, you can work on systems using SAP NetWeaver Portal, SAP Solution Manager, or SAP ERP by using a similar interface.

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Connection Settings

quick overview of the connection settings provided by NWBC.

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Using SAP NetWeaver Business Client

After providing the correct credentials (logon screen not shown), you are able to work in the SAP system by using the special roles assigned to your user.

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